Recent Acquisitions

  1. HODSON, Thomas.

    The Accomplished Tutor; or, complete System...

    London, H. D. Symonds, and Vernor and...

    Second edition, revised, of a voluminous...

    £300

  2. HAMILTON, Elizabeth.

    Letters on the elementary Principles of...

    Bath, R. Cruttwell for G. and J. Robinson,...

    Second edition, published in the same year...

    £400

  3. [GEOGRAPHY.]

    Primi principi di geografia ad uso de’...

    [(Colophon:) Bergamo, Pietro Lancellotti,...

    Extremely rare second edition (first 1745)...

    £375

  4. [ART EDUCATION.]

    Der kleine Maler.

    [Germany, mid-nineteenth century.]

    A delightful suite of plates intended to...

    £450

  5. [TACOLI, Carlotta Munarini, Marchioness.]

    ‘Memorie riguardanti la storia filosofica...

    Modena, 1805.

    An unpublished manuscript introduction...

    £1250

  6. [VENICE.]

    Juventus cesareo-regii gymnasii urbis Venetiarum...

    [(Colophon:) Venice, Francesco Andreola,] 1828.

    A seemingly unrecorded annual report for...

    £350

  7. SPURZHEIM, Johann Gaspar.

    A View of the elementary Principles of...

    Boston, Marsh Capen and Lyon, 1832.

    First American edition (first Edinburgh,...

    £125

  8. [SPENCE, Joseph.] Nicholas TINDAL.

    A Guide to classical Learning: or, Polymetis...

    London, J. Dodsley, 1777.

    Second illustrated edition (fourth overall)...

    £250

  9. PARR, Samuel.

    A Discourse on Education and on the Plans...

    [Norwich, John Crouse for] London, T. Cadell...

    First and only edition of this treatise...

    £175

  10. [BECKFORD, William, and Samuel HENLEY, translator.]

    An Arabian Tale, from an unpublished Manuscript....

    London, Printed for W. Clarke … 1809.

    Scarce second edition – in fact a reissue...

    £1500

  11. DU BOS, Jean-Baptiste, Abbé.

    Reflexions critiques sur la poésie et...

    Paris, Pierre-Jean Mariette, 1740.

    Fourth edition, expanded and corrected,...

    £250

  12. [CRIMEAN WAR.]

    Les militaires chrétiens a la guerre d’orient....

    Versailles, Beau jeune, [1856].

    First and only edition, rare, of this unusual...

    £375

  13. [WILSON,] Thomas, Bishop of Sodor and Man.

    A short and plain Instruction for the better...

    London, B. Dod, T. Longman & C. Hitch,...

    Scarce first posthumous edition of this...

    £250

  14. PONSONBY, Emily, Lady.

    De Greville’s en de Lorimers. Twee Familie-Tafereelen,...

    Amsterdam, P. N. Van Kampen, 1851.

    First edition in Dutch of ‘Susan Grenville;...

    £250

  15. MAXIMUS the Confessor; Jean PICOT, translator.

    Sanctissimi patris magistrique, Maximi,...

    [(Colophon:) Paris,] Guillaume Morel, [1560].

    First edition of Jean Picot’s Latin translation...

    £850

  16. GERHARD, Johann.

    Meditationes sacrae. Editio postrema, prioribus...

    Oxford, John Lichfield for Henry Curteyne,...

    First English-printed Latin edition of...

    £950

  17. ‘DORNIS, Jean’ [pseud. Élena BEER].

    La voie douloureuse.

    [Évreux, Charles Hérissey for] Paris,...

    First edition of Jean Dornis’ first novel,...

    £275

  18. BURNET, Gilbert.

    A Vindication of the Authority, Constitution,...

    Glasgow, Robert Sanders, 1673.

    One of three editions, all of the same...

    £500

  19. PROPERTIUS; Oliffe Legh RICHMOND, editor.

    Sexti Properti quae supersunt opera, edidit...

    Cambridge, University Press, 1928.

    First edition of Richmond’s controversial...

    £400

  20. [LE MARCHE.]

    Deed relating to the sale of property in...

    [Rome, 1616.]

    A curiously bound public instrument notarised...

    £850